... THE .LAWS? What, I wonder, were the topics of conversation as the ladies and gentlemen promenaded to and fro, or reclined in the deck chairs' Doubtless the matter of the Corn Laws came in for animated discussion, softie arguing that English farmers would ...

... CORN LAWS Sir Frank opened his lecture by explaining that a little more than a century ago Parliament repealed the Corn Laws, giving virtually free entry to corn from abroad. To agriculture this seemed to portend a ruinous fall in prices: to ...

... THE CORN LAWS The Corn Laws in particular came in for detailed review. At this time the importation of corn was governed by a Statute of 1774, according to which each matitime county in Scotland regulated imports according to its own ruling ...

... THE REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS mending Mankind to keep up with it, which had decreed inexorably that the Corn Laws must go—either through the constitutional channel of Parliament or through some other means. Having fought a gallant battle and lost It, the ...

... Blame the Corn Laws YOUR correspondent who - A. accused Sir Waldron Stnithers of wanting to return to 1820 shouid brush up his history. The evil conditions of that period were largely the result of grim protectionismthe worst examp:e of which was the ...

... When the corn laws sugar duties ijOBERT Ingham is Jl'commemorated in the Ingham Infirmary, which bears his name as a result 0 f a town’s meeting in 1869 arising from desire on the part of the citizens to honour the services ot their first M.P. The hospital ...

... Fifty Years Ato DISPEL GLOOM AND CORN LAWS WygRYONE has extra shop J ping to do At this time of las ogee last minute suggespons of some of the lines ...

... The Jugs—family souvenirs owned by Mr J. Turnbull, which commemorate the Repeal of the Corn Laws. Commission’s proposals, and. more recently, the subject of local government reorganisation. The Mayor and Mayoress, Mrs Gompertz. have the distinction of ...

... light that they (the petitioners) regard the evils which spring out of the present Corn Laws and it is in a commercial pojgit of view that they connect with the Corn Laws the distress which now unhappily prevails. says one passage from the speech. Lord ...

... system of democracy was determinedly to be erected, but the Corn Laws remained, a perpetual tribute to aristocracy, a perennial problem afflicting Parliament. The interests banded behind the Corn Laws waged a brilliant rearguard action which, however, could ...

... passages in history as dull and confusing the jiggery-pokery that led to Texas joining the United States of America. It has the Corn Laws and Pragmatic Sanctions beat to a frazzle. Not even Clark Gable and Ava Gardner and all their fleshly delights can stir up ...

... work of one party alone. Men of integrity in all parties have voted for them. I mention. for example, the repeal of the Corn Laws, the abolition of the Slave Trade. legislation for the improvement of working conditions in the factories. for the extension ...